"The government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) are gearing up for the 2026 launch of the 15 th iteration of the government's G-Cloud procurement framework, having treated the purchasing agreement to the biggest revamp in its history. The framework's value and length are both markedly larger and longer, respectively, compared with previous iterations of the framework, with CCS introducing changes to seemingly make G-Cloud better suited for larger cloud deals."
"In contrast, the previous iteration was valued at £4.8bn and will have run for two years by the time it ends. Another sizeable change is the introduction of eight-year contracts for cloud hosting deployments under G-Cloud 15, when the maximum contract length permitted under G-Cloud 14 was half that length at four years. For the non-cloud hosting lots, contracts called off under G-Cloud 15 can be a maximum of six years."
"Compared with the first-ever iteration of G-Cloud, which made its debut in spring 2012, G-Cloud 15 is a world apart. When it made its debut, the framework was pitched as a means of opening up government IT deals to SMEs and supporting the growth of the UK's own homegrown market of cloud providers. This was at a time when the awarding of lengthy and expensive contracts to big tech firms and systems integrators (SIs) was the norm,"
G-Cloud 15 will launch in 2026 with a projected value of £14bn and a four-year agreement running to September 2030. The previous iteration was valued at £4.8bn and ran for two years. G-Cloud 15 introduces eight-year contracts for cloud hosting and up to six-year contracts for non-cloud hosting lots, compared with four-year maximums previously. The Crown Commercial Service has reworked the framework to better accommodate larger cloud deals. These changes represent a marked departure from the original 2012 aim of opening government IT procurement to SMEs and challenging big tech dominance.
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